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Actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI—and warns this is just the beginning (fortune.com)
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Actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI—and warns this is just the beginning::The actor told an audience in London that AI was a “burning issue” for actors on strike.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure it wasn't just the HP audiobooks. He's been on television for 40 some odd years. There's hundreds and hundreds of hours of recordings of his voice to train an AI model on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hours of monologue with zero background noise is absolute gold for training the model though. You'd have to chop up and edit a lot of footage to get an inferior result with the television footage. Still, it's entirely possible and it may possibly have been trained on both.